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13·2 days agoOr when he thought Portland was a war zone because he saw it on Fox News?
If it discourages Trump from coming to London, I’m sure most Londoners would be fine with him staying deluded.
10·3 days agoThey can’t be that incompetent
Have you seen these billionaires? They absolutely can. The myth of their competence is pure propaganda.
Also, they like corruption because it offers many opportunities for those with enough money to pay. And they like oppression of workers because it provides a ready pool of cheap labour to exploit.
They’ll be looking at Russia and liking what they see, because they don’t see themselves being the ones working for pennies and being sent to die in Ukraine. And they all think they’re the smartest guy in the world (“why else would I have so much money?”) so they don’t see themselves being fucked over by Putin either. For them Russia is the promise of doing whatever you want, taking advantage of whomever you want, and getting whatever you want.
What a coincidence that the MAGA USA’s policy towards Europe is almost indistinguishable from Russia’s!
155·4 days agoThe font was chosen in an effort to make documents easier to read for the vision impaired.
So It’s Republican policy that the government must not, even in the smallest way, make life any easier for disabled people? And the government must not do nothing and leave in place something that already makes life easier for them, but must actively intervene to make it harder? Of course it is, but what the fuck is wrong with these people that they dedicate their entire life to getting into government so they can punch down and hurt others? How have they not even accidentally stumbled into being better than the worst they can be?
The aging sea lion enables the Stephen Millers to go about their nasty business while everyone is looking elsewhere. That’s one way he’s dangerous. The other is that he’s a threatened malignant narcissist with dementia and diminishing impulse control, and one of the world’s most powerful armies.
First you need to put the non-rich in charge and prevent them being bought off by the rich. That’s the hard part, but not impossible.
Until version 8.8.7 of Notepad++, the developer used a self-signed certificate, which is available in the Github source code.
That doesn’t sound wise.
It depends on their relationship with the social media companies. There’s a good chance companies like Meta have already given the authorities a lot of data on their users. US law enforcement might already know about some of your accounts based on your identity, and then claiming you have none might not work well.
I wouldn’t mind so much if they were giving their own arms and legs, but they seem to be giving ours.
They’re probably counting on people eventually forgetting what they did. People can forget quickly.
That’s been the thinking for the last couple of decades at least. But it can’t continue if people can’t afford new hardware.
191·6 days agoTheir agenda sounds good but apparently they’ve acted a bit shadily in various ways.
https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html
If there’s any silver lining to this, perhaps we can get a renewed interest in efficient open-source software designed to work well on older hardware, and less e-waste.
Nothing inevitable about it. That kind of thing only happens when you’re defeated in war, taken prisoner by your enemies, or when your entire country sees and regrets the course it has taken. Bush and Cheney faced no consequences, and Kissinger faced no consequences, because no one in a position to bring that about wanted to. Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich and the rest will face no consequences unless Israel’s apartheid regime falls. And that looks unlikely in the near future.
They’re still preparing, gathering names for the day when they have enough force:
I don’t think it’s AI. It looks like bad human writing. An AI wouldn’t use clunky non-idiomatic phrases like this:
He noted that the area of the pipe break is part of museum spaces that will undergo a major renovation…
Also, A LLM would be unlikely to say a flood led to a burst pipe when it has lots of examples of writing where the causation is the other way round. A human having a brain fart might make that mistake though.
I suspect this article was written in a hurry by someone whose English isn’t great.
Even more efficient: humans do the specs and the implementation. AI has nothing to contribute to specs, and is worse at implementation than an experienced human. The process you describe, with current AIs, offers no advantages.
AI can write boilerplate code and implement simple small-scale features when given very clear and specific requests, sometimes. It’s basically an assistant to type out stuff you know exactly how to do and review. It can also make suggestions, which are sometimes informative and often wrong.
If the AI were a member of my team it would be that dodgy developer whose work you never trust without everyone else spending a lot of time holding their hand, to the point where you wish you had just done it yourself.
If there’s one thing I know about Americans it’s that when they say “bullshit” they mean “utter poppycock, twaddle and codswallop.”